{"id":29924,"date":"2017-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/no-law-against-hurting-someone-s-feelings-says-chris-pyne\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T00:00:00","slug":"no-law-against-hurting-someone-s-feelings-says-chris-pyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/no-law-against-hurting-someone-s-feelings-says-chris-pyne\/","title":{"rendered":"No law against hurting someone\u2019s feelings, says Chris Pyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Christopher Pyne says government changes to the Racial Discrimination Act will enable the law to work as it was intended &#8212; but warns it was never designed to prevent hurt feelings.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf people want to hurt my feelings that\u2019s obviously disappointing,\u201d Mr Pyne told David and Will on FIVEAA, \u201cbut it shouldn\u2019t be illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/313687233&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Pyne said the government\u2019s proposed changes would \u201cmake section 18C do what it was supposed to do in the first place\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat we are doing is restoring credibility to 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which has become used by activists to really shut down opinion rather than its purpose when it was formed by the Labor party &#8212; which was to stop people being persecuted because of their race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a law is being used to prosecute cartoonists or students with an opinion\u2026 then I think the law has been overused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is make it stronger, make it fairer and make it serve its purpose, which is to stop people being intimidated or harassed because of their race.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Anthony Albanese denied that late cartoonist Bill Leak had been prosecuted under the existing law for a <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/we-re-on-the-way-to-tyranny-cartoonist-s-warning-for-australia\">controversial cartoon he drew in 2016<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was very clear that Bill Leak would never have been found guilty of anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made my position very clear, including to Bill Leak\u2026 it was absurd the idea that he would be prosecuted for that. 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